Ukrainian mines will not endanger DPR residents

Officers of pyrotechnical group of Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) Ministry of Emergency Situations completed a lot of work defusing the deadly “gifts” of the Kiev junta’s military, the press centre of the Ministry informed the reporters of Donetsk News Agency.

During the week, the officers of the pyrotechnical group examined over three hectares of land in the area of Novodarievka-Amvrosievka pipeline and about 10 hectares of land in the outskirts of the Saur-Mogila Memorial. For memorial days (a week starting from Sunday after the Orthodox Easter. During this week, the Orthodox go to cemeteries to pray for their relatives buried there – Editor), sappers cleared about two dozen cemeteries from Ukrainian explosive devices in Amvrosievka, Yasinovataya towns and Komsomolskoe village of Starobeshevskiy district.

An employee of the press centre said that “During the week, the pyrotechnical group found and defused 143 explosive devices. More than 143 hectares of different territories and one hectare of agricultural lands were inspected by the method of complete clearing of the area. The sappers of the pyrotechnical group of the Republican Rescue Centre defused minefield along the Uglegorsk-Debaltsevo road“.

Moreover, the area of 12 km in length along the future gas pipeline ‘Debaltsevo-Uglegorsk’ was cleared of mines.

It is expected that the gas pipeline will be operational by the end of the year.

During the previous week, DPR engineers have found and defused 162 explosive objects.